Undergarment



(No Model.)

0. A. BROWN.

UNDBRGAEMBNT.

Patented Nov. 3, 1896.

V I Bra/w??? 1 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. BROVN, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

UNDERGARMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 570,696, dated November 3, 1896. Application filed July 13, 1896. Serial No. 598,992. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Reference may be had to the accompany.

ing drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a view in front elevation of an undergarment exhibiting my improvement. Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic illustration of my improved manufacture, showing how the waist portion of the garment is re duced in weight and bulk by the omission of one or more threads which are contained in the other portions of the garment.

The object of my invention is to conveniently and cheaply produce a knitted undergarment with a relatively thin and light waist portion.

My invention consists of an undergarment in which the fabric is formed by simultaneously feeding to suitable knitting mechanism a plurality of threads and intermitting the feed of one or more of the threads while the waist portion is being knitted.

It is common in the art of knitting to feed a plurality of threads to the knitting mechanism. For example, aworsted and a fine cotton thread may be fed to produce a worsted face and one or more cotton threads to produce a cotton back on the same fabric.

To produce my improved garment, it is only necessary to intermit the feed of one or more of the threads while knitting the waist portion, which can be easily done without ma- 5 terially adding to the expense of the garment.

Referring to the drawings, Fig. 1 represents a ladys knitted undervest in which the waist A is thinner and lighter than the other parts B of the garment by reason of its containing a lesser number of threads than the other parts, the feed of one thread cl having been intermitted during the operation of knitting the waist.

In Fig. 2 I have represented a portion of the knitted fabric at the j unotion of the waist and upper body portion B of my improved garment. The two upper rows of loops or stitches are shown formed of four threads,

represented by the lines a b c d, each line rep- 6o resenting a thread, while the two lower rows of loops are formed of but three threads at b e, each represented by a single line, oneof and is relatively lighter, than the contiguous upper and lower portions, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 10th day of July, 1896.

CHAS. A. BROWN.

\Vitnesses Gno. A. MosnER, L. J. THIESSEN. 

